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Donnie Yen in talks for ‘Genghis’ movie?
Just a few short years ago; Donnie Yen was struggling for roles. Sure, he was choreographing the fight scenes in movies like “Blade II” (in which he also had a small part) and “Highlander: Endgame”, but nobody seemed much interested in hiring him as a frontline actor.
How things change.
After the success of “Hero” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, Yen’s now a man in demand. According to his manager, talking to Monkey Peaches, the martial-arts actor has been offered no less than six film projects of late – all with an eye to have him star.
One of the most interesting of the projects is a film that would star Yen as Bruce Lee – which Lee’s family has apparently sanctioned – but another one caught my eye: “Genghis Khan”.
The Chinese-Mongolian project is just one of several films in the works about the legendary Mongolian warrior and conqueror. Assumingly, Lee would be playing the lead in this pic. And I tell ya, that’s great casting. A lot better than some of the ideas that the producers of the other Khan biopic’s are throwing about.
It’ll be interesting to see which one gets up first, this version or the one that Steven Seagal (!) has in the works.
Seagal’s untitled Genghis Khan project, with Kan Annakin, has been in the pipeline for a couple of years now though – so it could very well be dead.
